Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality: A Philosophical Theory

The author proposes a new theory of prudence and morality that integrates neuroscience and philosophy, drawing on findings from behavioral neuroscience to explain how brain regions and capacities interact to give rise to prudential and moral behavior. The book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 156 pages
Publication date: 13 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Philosophers have long debated the relationship between prudence and morality, but few clear answers have emerged due to the speculative nature of traditional philosophical methods. This book aims to forge a bold new path forward by outlining a theory of prudence and morality that unifies a wide variety of findings in neuroscience with philosophically sophisticated normative theorizing. The author summarizes the emerging behavioral neuroscience of prudence and morality, showing how human moral and prudential cognition and motivation involve over a dozen brain regions and capacities. He then outlines a detailed philosophical theory of prudence and morality based on neuroscience and lived human experience. The result demonstrates how this theory coheres with and explains the behavioral neuroscience, showing how each brain region and capacity interact to give rise to prudential and moral behavior. Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality: A Philosophical Theory will be of interest to philosophers and psychologists working in moral psychology, neuroethics, and decision theory. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Weight: 290g
Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032337036